Comments on: Intel outside Apple's pending MacBook launch?

Apple's not dumping Intel's processors, but it might be using another company's chipset inside new notebooks expected to arrive within the next month or so.

[RompStar_420]

Hell ya, I have the PowerMac G5 dual 2.0 model as well, I love it. The only thing is that I had some minor issues with those damn fans reving up, seems to happen sometimes when I put the computer to sleep mode, so I make sure not to, 3 years old and outrunning everything else I got since.

IBM has developed the Power architecture Big time since Apple used their G5 processors, I would love to see it come back.

[allenvanhellen]

The article doesn't say that Apple is going to change the processors to something other than the x86-64 architecture that the Intel Core 2 Duo uses; it does say that it appears Apple may change the chipset on the motherboards. Have you ever built a computer from scratch? You have to choose a motherboard, and one of the deciding factors is the chipset, which manages traffic between graphics, CPU, memory, and peripherals, etc. and often includes integrated sound and graphics capabilities. The integrated graphics of the Intel chipsets currently used on the MacBook have been criticized for low performance.